Jack Crivici-Kramer

Combined.

Not combined.

But still, you know what we mean.

And almost exactly 30 years later, Pokemon continues to bring the American cheddar back to Japan.

Because on my birthday, March 5th, just about two weeks ago, Nintendo launched Pokemon Pocopia.

Yeah, and you can see where this is going.

Let's push play on the trailer for this new video game.

Sounds adorable, sounds cute, and it sounds also like this.

Because this game, where you build a town as a character named Ditto, it retails for 70 bucks a pop.

And sales have been so good over the last two weeks that one analyst at Morningstar thinks it's going to bring in 15 to 20 million copies.

And at 70 bucks each, that's 1.4 billion dollars of sales for Nintendo.

Or a game that nobody thought would even be a hit.

Pokemon demand is so high right now, Amazon had to raise the price of this game to 80 bucks, something they never do.

Profits, gotta catch them all.

And the game is so viral, it's expected to drive millions of purchases of the Switch 2 gaming console too.

I just squirtled on my catterpie when I heard that.

That sounds inappropriate.

But it's not.

So to sprinkle on even more context, Pokemon's Pocopia, it's like SimCity in that you build a city, right, Jack?

But it's much lazier than SimCity because SimCity requires you build infrastructure, levy taxes, oversee a whole metropolis like a mayor.